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I want to get started on LEGO trains. However when I look up which trains sets are available I find only two:
Does that mean I can only buy two different trains for my railway? That seems very limiting. What am I missing here? Are there more trains available?
Those are the two City-themed trains that are currently available. LEGO is currently transitioning to a new electrical system for trains, so that may explain the relatively low number of trains available. There are a couple of other trains available if you are interested in something outside of the City theme.
There's Winter Holiday Train (10254):
And also the new Hogwart's Express(75955) (currently backordered):
These are just the sets currently available directly from TLG. LEGO has produced many, many trains over the years. You can find out-of-production train sets on secondary markets such as Bricklink or eBay.
As jncraton noted LEGO is going through a transitional time now. Sadly trains are not a huge portion of their sales so it tends to ebb and flow through time anyway. So if you want a train definitely grab it while it is for sale widely. If you wait a year or two it could be gone or harder to find.
There are other options however...
You can spend crazy money on old LEGO trains. But there are recent trains that are available at reasonable prices:
Be careful to not go too far back. If you go far enough back track is different and you will run into compatibility issues. The first book I mention in the next section does a good job of going through the history, but it doesn't get into the 2018 trains or their electronics.
There are a few books on building trains in LEGO:
https://brickset.com/sets/ISBN1593278195-1/The-LEGO-Trains-Book
I've got the one above. It goes into part by part detail on several train and train car designs. The designs are flexible in that you can change the colors. There are folks who make labels that compatible with these designs as well. I haven't managed to build any of these yet, but I'm working on gathering the parts.
There's another book that came out this year: https://brickset.com/sets/ISBN1513261134-1/Build-It!-Trains
I don't have this one yet, but it looks like it has potential. When it arrives I'll edit this somehow.
The components to motorize trains with the new "Powered Up" system should be available by the end of this year. So you could pick-up some older trains and motorize them yourself at a given point... I did so recently with 10219 Maersk train (2011 set, hard to find, expensive) and components salvaged from the new train and I believe the result is fabulous.
